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Friday, December 16, 2016

Five paying markets for short stories, essays, and poetry

Don’t Talk to Me About
Love is delighted to announce their 2017 Poetry Contest is
accepting submissions of love poetry until January 15, 2017. There’s a $1,000
prize, and a $20 entry fee. Submission guidelines here.

They also accept regular submissions:
What does love mean to you? Don't Talk To Me About Love wants your fiction nonfiction, and artwork
exploring love in any of its expressions: romantic, platonic, parental, and
much more.

Pen
and Kink Publishing is open to submissions for a new
anthology. I hope you can include the information
(below) on Quick Brown Fox

Thank
you so much!

Take
care,

Elesha

Triskaidekaphilia is the love of the number thirteen. It’s also
the name of our anthology series which explores the more shadowy corners of
romance and erotica. We are incredibly excited to announce the second book in
the series – Ravenous – which will be edited by Ariel Jade and be about
all things vampiric!

Dark. Brooding. Tortured. Sexy.

Vampires are a mystery, morphing through history
from maligned villains to sparkling saviors and back again. They can be the
ultimate bad boys, the supreme seductresses, or the evil monsters. They
fascinate and repel us at the same time. What other creature can steal into
your bedroom in the depths of the night to stalk or protect? What other ancient
being is so accessible yet so powerful? What other enigma is desired as much as
feared?

Ravenous will
explore the paradox that are vampires. We want your romantic stories where
vampire men and women, noble or troubled, are worthy of love and hungry for
their happily ever after. We want sexy stories about vampire hunters who track
down the beasts and, while neck deep in the war against the undead, find
comfort and happiness in each other. We want a far future planet populated by
only vampires; we want a Victorian city re-imagined with vampires as a dying
breed; we want a current world where vampires and humans live in harmony and
peace. We want all of that and more—let your imagination run wild.

All heat levels accepted, although plot is
important if you want to survive the slush!

The details:

Stories between 1,000 – 15,000 words long (query
for longer)

Reprints accepted by not preferred. When submitting
a reprint include information about its original publication in your submission
email.

Open to all gender pairings and multiple partners

Simultaneous & multiple submissions = No

Payment: $10 US and a
paperback copy of the anthology in exchange for the non-exclusive right to
include the story in both the print and electronic versions of the anthology.

BlackRabbitis
calling for submissions for its first issue. The journal aims to publish prose,
art, and essays that are serious in subject and theme, self-aware in style,
flexible, smart, and above all engaging. Our editors are always impressed by
originality and personality, are partial to fashionable nihilism, and like to
feel as if they are connected to an artist or author. Black Rabbit publishes
only a very few, very short pieces only very rarely, and as such is able to
offer payment despite being privately funded by poor people and staffed by
fiscal degenerates.

Seeks
one fiction piece 900 words or fewer. Genre and content guidelines are loose,
though our fiction editor is inclined to take work with a literary tone more
seriously than work without it. Creativity and experimentation are encouraged in
all cases.

Fiction between 3,000 and 10,000 words for a tribute
anthology to the 1984 slasher film C.H.U.D.Pays 3
cents per word U.S. ($90 – $300 ).

Short
horror stories thatarrestreaders and leave them haunted for
months to come. Stories must be original for Tales from the Lake, Volume 4. Stories should be no longer than
7,000 words. However, stories that are at or around 4,000 words are preferred

Navigating tip: For more paying
markets, go to theLabelsfor this posting listed below and click
on Paying Markets, or Best Paying Markets. In the list of Labels, you’ll also
find a links to various other collections of postings.

Brian Henry has been a book editor, writer, and creative writing instructor for more than 25 years. He teaches creative writing at Ryerson University. He also leads weekly creative writing courses in Burlington, Mississauga, Oakville and Georgetown and conducts Saturday workshops throughout Ontario. His proudest boast is that he has helped many of his students get published.